Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo on a raspberry pi with omxplayer

[Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>]

On Mon, 31 Dec 2012 08:35:36 +0800
William Kenworthy <billk@iinet.net.au> wrote:

> > If your intent is to learn something by all means proceed (you will
> > learn, and lots of it :-). But if you are looking for something to
> > use that works, it's probably only fair you know up front the odds
> > of success are not good.
> > 
> >   
> 
> Thanks for the conclusions ... I agree in part at least that its
> underpowered (already mildly overclocking it and using distcc) but its
> both a learning experience and hopefully will be useful.
> 
> It will play the files I am interested in (I tested using xbmc),
> however I am not as interested in gaudy eye candy (which seems to be
> what xbmc is all about) as in something easy to use - and myth
> integration was woeful on the version I tried.
> 
> I have (after an overnight compile) a working X on framebuffer (tested
> at 720p) using ratpoison - omxplayer is now compiling.
> 
> I am thinking of a simple ncurses or perltk interface to spawn
> omxplayer with a seleced file - need nothing more complex than that.
> I already have a "myth job" transcoding off-air recordings to an ipad
> friendly 720p with proper descriptive file names so I am aiming to
> start out with a similar, quite basic setup.
> 
> I have overcome the versioning mismatch in the various components and
> the licence is enabled according to a test.  Did you use the licenced
> mpeg2 playback?

Hi Bill,

If it does what you need, then by all means fire away. If nothing else,
the learning experience will be worth it.

I don't have a purchased mpeg-2 license, so can't comment on that. All
my content is transcoded to h.264 in mp4 containers, or good old .avi

-- 
Alan McKinnon
alan.mckinnon@gmail.com